Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each account of education to what it claims schools actually do.
- Parsons
- Bowles and Gintis
- Bourdieu and Passeron
- Willis
- Mirror the authority relations of the workplace in the classroom
- Select pupils on achievement and instil universalistic standards
- Reward a cultural inheritance the school itself never taught
- Are refused by pupils whose refusal delivers them to manual work
Hints
- Two of the four see schools as reproducing inequality without pupils noticing.
- One of the four found pupils who saw through the school and were trapped by their own insight.
Show the answer
- Parsons → Select pupils on achievement and instil universalistic standards
- Bowles and Gintis → Mirror the authority relations of the workplace in the classroom
- Bourdieu and Passeron → Reward a cultural inheritance the school itself never taught
- Willis → Are refused by pupils whose refusal delivers them to manual work
Why
The fourth entry is what makes the set worth learning together. Willis’s lads were not deceived; they correctly judged that school credentials would do little for people like them, and acted on that judgement in a way that guaranteed the outcome. Reproduction through clear-sightedness is a harder problem than reproduction through ignorance.
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